Paediatric Staff Nurse - Lion WardNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Band 5 Paediatric Nurse to join our team on Lion Ward, part of The Children's Surgical Ward here at Kings College Hospital.

You must be a Registered Children's Nurse with excellent clinical skills, be self-motivated, enthusiastic and committed to providing high standards of care for all our paediatric patients, their families and carers.

Care and compassion in managing our paediatric patients and families is important to us. Therefore, we expect successful candidates to demonstrate these qualities on a daily basis, and have the resilience to meet the challenges of our busy and stimulating work environment.

Lion Ward is a 10 bedded fast paced, paediatric Neuro-Surgical ward, caring for children and young people with varying neuro-surgical conditions, including those with brain tumours, spinal cord defects and hydrocephalus requiring shunt insertions or External Ventricular Drains. As a major trauma centre, we also receive trauma patients such as those with traumatic brain injuries.

Within these 10 beds, Lion Ward also has 2 beds allocated for Neuro Rehabilitation. This provides an excellent opportunity to work with the wider MDT. We also offer Telemetry on the ward.

Lion ward is part of the wider family of Team Child Health at Kings, and we welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

We endeavour to do the following:

• Ensure family-centred care is promoted on our ward and children and young people are treated with dignity and respect,
• Act with professionalism and integrity at all time; being a role-model, providing direction and motivation to colleagues and students.
• Provide holistic care to children, young people and their families, ensuring everyone has equal opportunities.
• Provide high quality clinical care to children and young people,
• Demonstrate honesty and learn from errors to support the creation of a no-blame culture where people feel able to share and learn from experiences together.
• To work as part of a team demonstrating effective communication and working collaboratively with colleagues within and external to the department.
• To participate in the teaching and supervision of junior staff and student nurses
• To be a safe and effective practitioner, able to provide patients and families with a high standard of nursing care.

Job description

Delivering high quality, evidence-based and patient focused clinical care through:

• Delivering a high standard of evidence-based care to patients.
• Ensuring good standards of care for the patient are maintained at all times.
• Adhering to NMC Code of Professional conduct at all times.
• Involving and supporting patients, relatives, carers and friends in the care process.
• Promoting well-being and involving patients and relatives in health education.
• Ensuring clear and accurate written and verbal information is given at all times.
• Ensuring contemporaneous record keeping at all times.
• Seeking advice from more senior/experienced members of staff where appropriate.

Working effectively as part of the immediate team and wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) through:

• Liaising effectively with all members of the MDT to ensure patients needs are met.
• Exercising leadership and taking the initiative where appropriate.
• Providing support and advice to ward/unit staff (especially junior staff) on clinical and administrative issues.
• Liaising with discharge coordinator / bed manager to ensure effective admission/discharge of patients.
• Keeping the ward/unit sister / charge nurse informed of significant changes and/or anticipated problems.

Upholding a duty of care and clinical governance through:

• Observing a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of yourself, work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital.
• Ensuring the rules, policies, procedures and standards of Kings College Hospital NHS Trust Foundation together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations are adhered to at all times.
• Maintaining patient confidentiality, dignity and privacy at all times.
• Adhering to the Trusts policy on valuing equality and diversity and showing due regard for each patients cultural and religious beliefs, gender, ethnicity, age and sexuality.
• Strictly adhering to the National Code of Practice on Infection Control. Staff Nurse (Band 5) Job Description Date of Origin: June 2009 3
• Taking responsibility for your own personal development and keeping up to date with nursing and medical knowledge.
• Being aware of current research and the implications for the ward/unit speciality.
• Acting as a role model at all times and for all staff.
• Acting as practice supervisor and/or preceptor/mentor for junior and newly qualified staff.
• Working with appropriate members of the teaching staff to ensure effective staff development (own and others).
• Participating in Trust and Divisional initiatives to develop nursing practice and support change.

About us

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.

Our six strategic ambitions are deliveringhigh-quality patient care; creating a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability.

We have also agreed four new organisational values - Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative - and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.